The big malaria split
Celebrities and politicians have been putting their twittering thumbs to work this week to raise funds for bednets (to protect people in malaria-endemic regions). Bill Gates, one of those tweeting on the subject, also went on record saying it the lack of attention to malaria vaccine research a decade ago was “criminal”. Amidst all the buzz over malaria, a study out in the Journal of Infectious Diseases on Monday suggests that there’s still much that we don’t understand about the parasites that cause it. In the paper, Colin Sutherland of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and his … Read more
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